Negative emotions are the RESULT of a stress reaction. In addition to what you have written, allowing these emotions and processing them can provide us with resolution. Suppressing these emotions pushes them into the unconscious mind, where they patiently wait to erupt, usually at some inopportune time. As you mention, suppressing these stress induced emotions or dwelling on them also perpetuates the stress reaction and actually “hardwires” a stress reaction to the situation related to these emotions. This is